{"id":328196,"date":"2026-06-21T06:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328196"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:29:22","slug":"my-20-year-old-daughter-cant-find-a-job-because-all-the-work-has-gone-to-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328196","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy 20 Year-Old Daughter Can\u2019t Find a Job Because All the Work Has Gone to Migrants\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Jones \u2013 <\/strong>The Daily Sceptic June 20, 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

Writing in the Telegraph<\/em>, Sean Thomas says his 20 year-old daughter can\u2019t find a job \u2013 any job, stacking shelves, washing pots, bar work \u2013 because the state has allowed all the work to go to migrants at a shocking ratio of 27 to one. Here\u2019s an excerpt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Do you remember what you did during the long summer breaks from university? I\u2019m ashamed I don\u2019t really, mainly because I did nothing much. I went inter-railing with friends and slept in a phone box in Vienna. I was so bored I tried to see if nutmeg is hallucinogenic (it isn\u2019t, really). Most of all I relied on my middle-class parents for cash, but they didn\u2019t mind as I was the lucky generation that was paid to go to uni so they didn\u2019t have to fund me the rest of the year.<\/p>\n

Of course, I had friends who weren\u2019t this lucky and had to find summer work \u2013 but they did it with ease. There was work everywhere, back in the day. How different it is now. My daughter is 20. A few days ago she was nearly in tears because she cannot find a summer job.<\/p>\n

Not a career, not a glossy internship \u2013 a job. \u201cDad, I\u2019ll do anything,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ll wash dishes at six in the morning.\u201d And she meant it: she did exactly that last year, gladly. Her work ethic is way more impressive than mine. And yet this year there is nothing. Let\u2019s be precise about the kind of work we mean. I\u2019m talking about the first rung on the ladder. Stacking shelves, wiping tables, cleaning toilets. The work by which a young person learns there is dignity in earning a living. And, more importantly, earns money.<\/p>\n

Is my daughter an aberration? The numbers say not. Youth unemployment stands at 16.2%, the worst since 2015 \u2013 worse even than at the peak of the pandemic, when the economy was switched off at the mains. A Government review has\u00a0warned of a \u201clost generation\u201d<\/a>, and has put the bill at \u00a3125 billion a year. It means real people, my daughter among them, going painfully workless, with all the damage that causes.<\/p>\n

You might assume the cause is impersonal \u2013 a temporary slump, or the machines coming for us all. But then you read the news, and it turns weary resignation into something hotter, because you see much of this is deliberate.<\/p>\n

This week we learnt that\u00a0more than 150 takeaways and kebab shops have been granted Government licences to recruit staff from overseas<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and that those workers may bring dependants, to lean on the same schools, surgeries and housing our young can no longer afford. Why? There are 1.8 million unemployed people in this country. There is a willing young woman at my table who will scrub a pan at dawn. And the considered response of the British state is to issue paperwork so a kebab shop \u2013 or a vape store, or a car wash \u2013 can fly someone in to do it instead.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t blame those who come; they are doing the rational thing, as I would. My quarrel is with a Government that looked at the first jobs of its own children and decided that they are surplus to requirements.<\/p>\n

Consider one figure, carefully, because it ought to end careers. Since the start of 2020, for every additional young Briton who found a payrolled job, employers took on\u00a027 young workers from outside the EU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Worth reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The UK government is committed to a program of population replacement. Consider that more than 150 fast food outlets have been granted permission to recruit from overseas \u2013 and that those workers may bring dependants. Why, when there are already 1.8 million unemployed people in this country? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":328197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328198,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328196\/revisions\/328198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/328197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}